Closed Cease the Grump

[Mikael Nightray]

Mikael knew he was not the best at being social. He wasn't even good at it. He had a very small group that he would consider friends and even looking at who was in the group was a very good indicator that he wasn't the best at making friends. There was his cousin (Hinata), his roommate (Horror), his roommate's twin (Terror), and his cousin's roommate (Bailey). He already had a small group of friends as it was so he really should not have been avoiding or alienating even one of them. He just hadn't been able to help it because aside from not being the best at being social, he was also not the best person in general. His Hogwarts life had kind of been shaken ever since Elio had entered the school. It was probably universally known that Mikael did not share. He didn't like sharing anything or anyone. Which is probably how he became with Terror and Bailey.

In any case, Mikael did not like sharing. And Elio. Well. Before Elio had come to Hogwarts, Elio had been his. Granted he hadn't understood back then just how much he thought of Elio as his or why he thought that, having the older Gryffindor gallivanting around the female population of Hogwarts had grated on his nerves. Severely. And when he'd heard about Elio and Bailey. Well, he'd actually started avoiding both of them. But Elio was a little more persistent, and it had begun with the Yule Ball and then the Nightray Ball, and now, they were a couple and he was still avoiding Bailey. And he was starting to maybe, just maybe, feel a little bad about it. Especially since he hadn't sent her his usual birthday gift when her birthday had passed months ago. He wasn't even really annoyed with her since months ago. But it had become a bad habit and maybe he'd been thinking what if she started hanging around more and Elio realized that he liked Bailey more? So yeah. That was happening. And that was annoying. But somehow, he kept doing it. Like today when they had Herbology together and he made sure to sit quite away from where Bailey and Hinata sat and then left the Greenhouse quickly. Yeah. Bad habit.​

 

[Bailey Walden-Cade]

Bailey had gotten the distinct impression that Mikael was giving her the cold shoulder. It was impressive since the two of them weren’t exactly friends, they were in the same year and were vaguely in each other extended social circles, but it wouldn’t be considered strange for the two of them not to talk to each other for significant periods of time. Despite this, Bailey felt like Mikael was specifically avoiding her lately which was an impressive feat from the Slytherin.

After he had gone out of his way to avoid her in Herbology, Bailey decided it was the final straw and followed him out of class and caught up with him on the great lawn. “Oi sour puss,” She called out to him, making sure to put herself in front of him once she had caught him to make sure she couldn’t mistake her intention and think she was calling after someone else. “What’s your problem with me?”